E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 17:07 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: 
> On 15 June 2011 17:04, amritpal pathak <amritpalpathak1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (2: No such file or
> > directory)
> > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you
> > root?
> >
> 
> What exact command are you running?

I don't think he sudo'd correctly. :) Ric


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